Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Surviving slavery,
segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in
African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become
prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.

Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks' support for Obama be compared with white voters who may favor his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, because he's white?

These questions have long animated conservatives who are frustrated by claims that white people who oppose Obama's policies are racist. This week, when a black actress who tweeted an endorsement of Romney was subjected to a stream of abuse from other African-Americans, the politics of racial accusation came full circle once again.

Stacey Dash,
who also has Mexican heritage, is best known for the 1995 film
"Clueless" and the recent cable-TV drama "Single Ladies." On Twitter,
she was called "jigaboo," ''traitor," ''house nigger" and worse after
posting, "Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future."

The
theme of the insults: A black woman would have to be stupid, subservient
or both to choose a white Republican over the first black president.

Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul and Obama
backer, called Dash's experience "racism." Said Barbara Walters on "The
View": "If she were white, this wouldn't have happened."

Twitter
users are by no means representative of America, and many black Obama
supporters quickly denounced the attacks. But for people like Art Gary,
an information technology professional, the reason Dash was attacked is
simple: She is a black woman supporting a white candidate over a black
one.

"It goes both ways," said Gary, who is white. "There is
racial bias amongst whites, and there is racial bias amongst blacks. But
as far as the press is concerned, it only goes one way."

Antonio
Luckett, a sales representative in Milwaukee who is black, called the
attacks on Dash unfair. But when people speak out against a symbol of
black progress like Obama, he said, "African-Americans tend to be
internally hurt by that."

"We
still have a civil rights (era) mentality, but we're not living in a
civil rights-based world anymore," he said. "We want to say, 'You're
black, you need to stand behind black people."

Luckett said one reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 primary against Hillary Clinton was because Obama is black: "Yes, I will admit that."

Is that racism? Not in Luckett's mind. "It's voting for someone who would understand your side of the coin a lot better."

Such
logic runs into trouble when applied to a white person voting for
Romney because he understands whiteness better. Ron Christie, a black
conservative who worked for former President George W. Bush, finds both
sides of that coin unacceptable.

"It's
not the vision that our leaders in the civil rights movement would have
envisioned and be proud of in the era of the first African-American
president," Christie said.

A CNN blog has reported that rising Democrat star, San Antonio Texas Mayor Julian Castro, has backed a deal that sends hundreds of millions of San Antonio tax dollars overseas to solar power company in South Korea. This has angered American solar power companies who say they put in bids that were just as good as the South Korean big, but the Democrat mayor still decided to send the money and jobs overseas. Allegations have also surfaced that Castro might have coordinated with President Obama because, before this deal was struck, Castro had dinner at the White House with South Korean officials.

Please go underneath the screen, scroll down to “VII Open Forum,” and click on it. Then go to marker 13:58 where a Katy ISD parent named Cindy Morris begins her testimony.

Ms. Morris addresses the objectionable Advanced Placement (AP) literature that is being taught to her child and to other students in the KISD. Her testimony ends at marker 17:09.

Ms. Morris gives an excellent presentation as to why AP literature books such as A Thousand Acres are highly inappropriate for students. Because children were in the audience, Ms. Morris (and Ms. Coleman, who testified before Ms. Morris on the same subject) did not read the quoted passages from the AP literature books to which they were objecting; but they did submit specific examples in hard copies that they handed to the KISD Board and administration.

Ms. Morris said that these books cause students to “wallow in the gutter of human behavior” and that students are overwhelmed with the salacious content rather than learning the AP elements of symbolism, literary devices, and social meaning that can so readily be learned from enlightening, challenging, and inspiring pieces of literature.

Ms. Morris concluded by saying, “I find it ironic that Images in a magazine are defined as pornographic; but when a writer creates such images or worse via words, we honor it as literature.”

Even though AP classes can be some of the best vehicles through which students can gain academic rigor, there has always been a potential danger because AP classes have always worked basically outside the state-adopted curriculum standards. The AP curriculum and tests are separate from the state-adopted curriculum standards and tests.

Over the years, I have had real concerns about many of the literary selections recommended by AP.

What AP does is to train AP teachers at AP conferences by giving them recommended AP units to teach. AP tells the teachers that they do not have to teach the recommended units but that if they don’t, then their students will not be prepared for the AP exams. Therefore, AP teachers end up going along with the AP-prepared units.

Unfortunately, AP has wandered far away from its original emphasis on the great literary classics and has brought in such gross and perverse literature as A Thousand Acres. As Cindy Morris indicated, this type of text when put into students’minds haunts them and destroys any naivety that they once had. The great pieces of classical literature can teach students all of the sophisticated literary analysis that they need without teachers having to place pornographic literature into students’ hands.

Sunday, October 28, 2012

The NAACP used to serve a good purpose but they have gone from helping black people have an equal vote to now advocating for felons to be able to vote and claiming it is racist, like Jim Crow Laws, that felons can't vote. I guess they are running out of things to do now that everyone is equal so they have to pull the race card to protect felons.

The NAACP president himself is sayings felons should vote.

In the grand scheme of accusations of racism, comparing a piece of
legislation to Jim Crow is one of the more drastic such accusation one
can make. Throwing around such a charge willy nilly, however, dilutes
its effectiveness, especially when the law being charged seems to
conform to common sense. NAACP President Ben Jealous should have been
more cognizant of this fact when he sat down with CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux
to discuss laws that require photo ID in order to vote.

I
worked with a guy who was in prison and changed his life when he got out and now has a family and lives a good life and votes
conservative Christian values. So I am not saying that anyone who has committed a crime should never be able to vote even after they have done their time. In Texas, depending on your crime I believe, you can vote on local or state ballots once you have done
your time. People who are in prison should not be able to vote while
they are still in prison though.

My
point is that the NAACP is saying it is RACIST that felons can't vote and they want ALL felons to be able to vote no matter what horrendous crime or murder they committed.

Sen. Lindsey Graham added his voice Tuesday to those calling for the Department of Defense to formally classify the Fort Hood shooting as terrorism, saying that classifying it "workplace violence" is "not fair" to the victims or their families.

The Republican senator was responding to a push by victims for the U.S. government to change its description of the rampage that left 13 dead. Such a change would make those who sustained injuries eligible for certain benefits and awards, like the Purple Heart.

A group called the Coalition of Fort Hood Heroes recently released a14-minute Web videomaking their case -- those behind the video called on viewers to engage Congress in pressuring the Obama administration.

"Based upon what we already know, this episode fits squarely into the realm of an act of terrorism," Graham said in a written statement Tuesday. "I will be working with my colleagues in the Senate to challenge this characterization by the Pentagon and push for an accurate description of the tragic incident that took place at Fort Hood. It was terrorism and it should be described that way.

"The difference in characterization between workplace violence and an act of terrorism is meaningful, in a variety of ways, to the victims and their families," he said.

The Defense Department so far has resisted the push to designate it as terrorism, apparently reluctant to make any changes while suspect Nidal Hasan faces court martial.

"The Department of Defense is committed to the integrity of the ongoing court martial proceedings of (Hasan) and for that reason will not at this time further characterize the incident that occurred at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009," Pentagon spokesman George Little said. "Major Hassan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. As with all pending (court martial) matters, the accused is innocent until proven guilty."

Little went on to say that "survivors of the incident at Fort Hood are eligible for the same medical benefits as any service member. The Department of Defense is committed to the highest care of those in our military family."

But survivor Kimberly Munley, a former federal police officer who was shot three times at Fort Hood and who appeared in the latest Web video, said that's not true. She said her group has heard "nothing" in response to its appeals.

"It's hard to fathom the fact that these are considered lone wolves or the act of workplace violence," she told Fox News.

The reference to "workplace violence" refers to an earlier Defense Department letter that depicted the 2009 shooting that way.

Those who claim it should be classified as terrorism point to the repeated contact Hasan had with radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was later killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.

In the Coalition of Fort Hood Heroes video, one of those injured in the attack said fellow victims "were fighting a domestic enemy" who wanted to prevent soldiers from deploying. "If that's not an act of war or an act of terrorism, then I don't know what is," he said.

BELTON, TX --Election officials in the county where Fort Hood is headquartered say they're worried the Army is giving soldiers incomplete instructions for voting by mail.

In
an Oct. 15 email, Col. Jason Evans, the Army's adjutant general, urged
soldiers to vote by completing and mailing in a Federal Write-In
Absentee Ballot. Those ballots are available online.

However,
Bell County Clerk Shelley Coston tells the Temple Daily Telegram that
those instructions skip a step required by Texas law. That requires
requesting a ballot in writing by mail. Coston says that if soldiers
cast ballots that can't be matched with a request, they won't be
counted.

Requests
by mail for ballots must be received by Oct. 30. Requests received
after that date, regardless of postmarked date, won't be accepted.

VOTE! This is your chance to impact the future of America for generations to come. Multiply your vote by calling, emailing, FaceBooking, Tweeting, and any other means you have to encourage your friends and family to get out and vote. The following message from David Barton is something that should be shared with everyone you know

Why Vote?

With millions heading to the polls this election cycle, will Christians make a difference? Will they make their voices heard through their vote?

Oftentimes, Christians believe the lies told to them by the secular media - lies like:

Since City-controlled TIRZ 17's incipience in 1999 as a Tri-Party Agreement (the City, TIRZ 17, & Memorial City Management District), TIRZ 17 has been required by Contract to install 4 detention ponds, to dispose of its rain run-off of its new commercial development projects, to prevent flooding of adjacent properties. Yet to-date, not 1 pondhas been done, and residents' homes on all sides of TIRZ 17's 1,000 Acres have been flooded as a result, with many being still at great risk of being flooded again in a heavy rainstorm, until and unless TIRZ 17 puts in its required detention ponds. But, due to various reasons/excuses, they may never be built.

Therefore, in the interim of TIRZ 17's working out its legalities for putting in proper detention, I am proposing an alternative solution, to prevent any future potential flooding in our neighborhoods caused by TIRZ 17, as we are still at great risk, and in the best interest of the larger community, namely ALL of Houston: I am asking that all of City Councilplace a moratorium on any current new commercial building in TIRZ 17 until there are plans for and completion of at least two of TIRZ 17's detention ponds-- not just halt its current annual CIP Budget--

AND/ORwithin a month's time, change the City Ordinance(s) pertaining to detention ponds for commercial development by eliminating ALL grandfathering and ALL loopholes in any such City Ordinance(s): Commercial developers should be required to install, at their expense, a detention pond IF their project(s) is(are) 1 Acre or more in size, period. No skipping out of building them because of previously-existing conditions, whether dirt-fill can or has been added to the land, or whether the surface was previously impervious or pervious. All developers must comply with this new City Ordinance for commercial construction-- no if's, and's, or but's! NO Loopholes! They may put the ponds either above-ground or below-ground, such as beneath parking garages.

Houston has become "cement city" overnight, it seems, without enough detention ponds-- so the streets, as well as residents' homes, flood! The Rebuild Houston Drainage Fee taxes mostly individual homeowners, to fix flooding and damaged or inadequate underground street storm and sewer pipes in neighborhoods, due to undue duress of new-fangled construction, while commercial developers skip out of putting in their detention ponds required by City Ordinances that are out-of-date by today's standards. We have skyscrapers today, and many more commercial buildings as compared to days past. We use far more cement and asphalt today, covering green-space or "groundswell". We add truckloads of dirt-fill to raise the elevation of properties signficantly, causing spilling of water all the more rapidly onto other people's homes. Moreover, scientists tell us Houston is sinking a fraction of an inch every year, as we flatten out more to sea-level. The new Drainage Fee may not even have had to be inaugurated had commercial developers carried their share of putting in detention as required by City Ordinance-- which might have prevented a lot of flooding of streets and, hence, homes. Loopholes or previously existing conditions, known as grandfathering clauses, should be done away with in a NEW City Ordinance requiring that ALL commercial developers put in a detention pond(s) for a project(s) of 1 or more Acres.

Such new City Ordinance(s) could be easily drawn up and ratified, as an alternative to resolvingTIRZ 17's legal snags until it can put in a detention pond(s). And we residents in neighborhoods surrounding TIRZ 17 would feel a lot safer, knowing that however it was accomplished, we have detention ponds so that we won't be flooded out by any more new commercial development!

But these City Ordinance changes must be done quickly as possible, to save our neighborhoods from being flooded any further by TIRZ 17's new development. And they will also concommitantly serve a larger purpose of saving all of Houston's neighborhoods.

(Reuters) -
Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours
after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi,
Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit
for the attack, official emails show.

The emails, obtained by Reuters
from government sources not connected with U.S. spy agencies or the
State Department and who requested anonymity, specifically mention that
the Libyan group called Ansar al-Sharia had asserted responsibility for
the attacks.

The brief emails also show how U.S. diplomats described the attack, even as it was still under way, to Washington.

U.S.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in
the Benghazi assault, which President Barack Obama and other U.S.
officials ultimately acknowledged was a "terrorist" attack carried out
by militants with suspected links to al Qaeda affiliates or
sympathizers.

Administration
spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an
unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that
the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim
film.

AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott advised the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe -- a United Nations partner -- that groups and individuals from outside the United States do not have jurisdiction to interfere with Texas elections. The Attorney General'sletter comes after the international group -- comprised of 56 members including EU nations and other countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, the Russian Federation, Slovenia and Turkey -- announced they would be sending election observers to sites throughout the United States, including Texas, on Election Day.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will reportedly dispatch election observers to the State of Texas to monitor the November 2012 general election. While it remains unclear exactly what your monitoring is intended to achieve, or precisely what tactics you will use to achieve the proposed monitoring, OSCE has stated publicly that it will visit polling stations on Election Day as part of its monitoring plan.

In April, you reportedly met with a group of organizations that have filed lawsuits challenging election integrity laws enacted by the Texas Legislature. One of those organizations, Project Vote, is closely affiliated with ACORN, which collapsed in disgrace after its role in a widespread voter-registration fraud scheme was uncovered. In September, a federal appeals court rejected Project Vote’s challenge to the State’s voter-registration regulations and allowed Texas to continue enforcing laws that were enacted to protect the integrity of the voter-registration process.

According to a letter that Project Vote and other organizations sent to you, OSCE has identified Voter ID laws as a barrier to the right to vote. That letter urged OSCE to monitor states that have taken steps to protect ballot integrity by enacting Voter ID laws. The OSCE may be entitled to its opinions about Voter ID laws, but your opinion is legally irrelevant in the United States, where the Supreme Court has already determined that Voter ID laws are constitutional.

If OSCE members want to learn more about our election processes so they can improve their own democratic systems, we welcome the opportunity to discuss the measures Texas has implemented to protect the integrity of elections. However, groups and individuals from outside the United States are not allowed to influence or interfere with the election process in Texas. This State has robust election laws that were carefully crafted to protect the integrity of our election system. All persons—including persons connected with OSCE—are required to comply with these laws.

Elections and election observation are regulated by state law. The Texas Election Code governs anyone who participates in Texas elections—including representatives of the OSCE. The OSCE’s representatives are not authorized by Texas law to enter a polling place. It may be a criminal offense for OSCE’s representatives to maintain a presence within 100 feet of a polling place’s entrance. Failure to comply with these requirements could subject the OSCE’s representatives to criminal prosecution for violating state law.

FoxNews - It should come as no surprise that President Obama will raise taxes if he is re-elected. But here’s the shocker: He will invite the United Nations to tax Americans directly. And the proceeds would go directly to the Third World. In this way, Barack Obama will, indeed, realize the dreams of his father.

It is said that there were warnings spoken by “prophets” to the Jewish people living in Germany prior to the holocaust. It is also said that “the furor” showed signs early on of being demanding and controlling.

As the old adage goes “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.”

We find ourselves coming to the end of 2012 in the midst of societal decay. Bankruptcy & bail outs, foreclosures, recession & depression are scattered throughout the decadent remains of this America. The nation building, war mongering, monetary manipulation & organized terrorism down to the exploitation of our families, our women & our children, have become the calling cards of this nation consumed by greed and power. When a nation institutes and legalizes the erosion and destruction of the fabric of religious freedom and moral value, they will indeed find that the “tree” may grow for a season but “its root” will be shallow. When the wind decides to blow, that nation will fall into ruin due to its lack of foundation! America is no different than Rome. The only thing that will be recognizable in the future will be the ruins of our buildings and the road systems that we developed while America was alive. It was less than 40 years ago, that America was referred to as the “land of hope and opportunity.” The lack of leadership in the American Church and the American Government over the past 40 years has sent the country down the path defining the classes and destroying the collective moral compass.

If you are reading this document, chances are that you are one of the frogs, regardless of your socioeconomics, local or regional status or how secure your life currently feels. You are a “Frog!” If you are one who currently lives in America, I encourage you not to choose a “dismissive mental protocol” for the remainder of this document. This document can be Travis’ Line for some or Brutus’ dagger for others. This document is meant to inform, instigate, confront and inspire… YOU THE FROG. You might be asking, “What do frogs have to do with religion and politics?” Remember the story of the Frog, “If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, the frog will jump out. If you place the frog in the pot of water and slowly turn up the heat he will boil to death.” We, the frogs, are in that pot of water. Understand that Germany was a quiet and peaceful place to raise children and families prior to the war mongering and dictatorship. We have to clearly understand that we are in the midst of a war for our freedom and liberty in America TODAY! We the frogs are being systematically dumbed down and at the same time

Hundreds of Houston-area parents are outraged over a new sex education program that teaches 12-year-old children about oral, anal and vaginal sex – and uses graphic curriculum to instruct students on how to use condoms.
“We don’t need the school district showing the kids how to put on condoms,” said parent Christine Kalmbach. “This is very alarming.”

Kalmbach’s son is a seventh grader in the Cy-Fair Independent School District, a suburb of Houston. She was one of many parents who attended a school board meeting this week to voice her concerns about the graphic sex classes.

The new curriculum is called, “It’s Your Game, Keep It Real,” – a program that includes real-life scenarios about condoms. School officials did not return calls for comment – but they told parents that the program was selected because it has a proven record.

District officails told television station KTRK that the curriculum was approved by a subcommittee made up of a group of parents — and the school board unanimously approved it during summer break — when many parents and students were on vacation.

School officials told local reporters that parents were given the choice of opting their children out of the sex education class. However, a copy of the permission slip sent to parents does not give them that choice.

Middle-schoolers will begin taking the class in two weeks –but parents have launched a Facebook pagethat they hopes will persuade the district to delay the class.

Several parents told Fox News that the information booklets provided by the school district did not indicate the graphic nature of the classroom instruction nor did it mention the level of detail.

“I started looking at the curriculum and I got this sense of dread,” she said. “I thought, ‘oh my gosh, what is it that they are putting in front of our kids?"

Kalmbach said the videos include cursing and slang. The actors are dressed provocatively.

“It has heavy petting and making out – and this is the seventh grade curriculum,” she said.

Kevin Brewer has three children in middle school. He told Fox News that the material is simply not age appropriate.

Monday, October 22, 2012

This FINAL debate is over foreign policy so there will for sure be some fireworks! Obama blaming the Sept 11 Libya Terrorist Attack on an anti-Muslim video instead of blaming the terrorists will be sure to come up along with Obama's overall FAILED foreign policy plan!

Early Voting Starts October 22

Election Day November 6:

Obama vs Romney, Congress, State Representative, State Board of
Education, State Senate, US Senate, Supreme Court, and Many Other
Important Races including local elections for County Judge, County
Sheriff, County Commissioner, justice of the Peace, District Judge,
etc..... GO VOTE!

A Planned Parenthood Clinic in Lufkin, Texas is being
accused of performing an abortion on a 15 year old girl (name withheld) without
the parents knowing and without alerting police to the young teen’s 25 year old
boyfriend Ronnie Pearson who allegedly took her there to get the abortion.

According to a source in the Jasper Police Department, when
the parents found out about their daughter and her 25 year old boyfriend, they
went to the Jasper Police Department to file a complaint against Ronnie
Pearson, the accusation being rape (statutory) of their young daughter. The
Police Chief at the time in Jasper, TX was Rodney Pearson, Ronnie Pearson’s
dad, so the complaint went nowhere.

The parents were not happy so they went to the Texas Rangers
to investigate.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has confirmed this
Texas Ranger’s investigation against Ronnie
Pearson, but no document could be released to protect the identity of the minor
child because the investigation involves accusations of child abuse/child
sexual assault.